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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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5566
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814)
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D81, J23, M13
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5564
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Siddhartha
Chib
Liana
Jacobi
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain: Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity ...
(revised version published as 'Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis and Returns to Compulsory Schooling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (6), 1026 - 1047)
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C11, C21, I21
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5563
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Julien
Grenet
Robert
A.
Hart
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204)
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J24, J31, N44
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5562
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Luojia
Hu
Analia
Schlosser
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1227 - 1261)
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J13, J16, I1, O12
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5561
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Giovanni
Facchini
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, 734-743)
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F22, J61
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5559
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Seo-Young
Cho
Axel
Dreher
Eric
Neumayer
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and ...
(revised version published as 'Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 429-454)
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O15, F22, P41
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5558
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Richard
Akresh
Leonardo
Lucchetti
Harsha
Thirumurthy
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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 330-340.)
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I12, J13, O12
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5557
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Denis
Fougère
Francis
Kramarz
Roland
Rathelot
Mirna
Safi
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 56-69.)
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J61, I38, R38
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5555
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Democratization and Civil Liberties: The Role of Violence During the Transition
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 226-247)
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H10, O20, N10
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5554
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David
M.
Blau
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ...
(revised version published as ' Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis of crowd out' in Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7 (1), 193 - 224)
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J26
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13003Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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